Week 4 find and verify sources

1.              Electronic Reference

Resource used:

·       Sage eReference

·       Encyclopedia of Perception: Color Perception

New Idea or Information:

·                The ability to see color seems to stem from a primitive and evolutionary purpose. Having the ability to determine if something was food, or not, was detrimental to surviving.

·                Synesthesia is the ability to perceive two sensations together. Most commonly, color is associated with numbers but this has to occur every time in the same way to be considered synesthesia. Others can experience synesthesia with emotion and color, or like me with pain and sound.

·                Language may affect the way color is perceived. Someone may not be able to see the difference between lime green and cyan if they call the colors the same thing. In their mind, the color is the same. This was something that I do not believe was in this part of the encyclopedia but was something that I found out about during another class that I thought would be really interesting to research more about for this class.

Subtopics:

·       Color Perception

·       Color Consistency

·       Synesthesia

·       Evolution

·       Color Naming

Possible Research Questions:

·       How does color naming affect perception of the color?

·       Can synesthesia be taught?

·       Can Synesthesia aid in memory and learning?

·       Did we, the human race, have to learn to see color?

List of words that may be useful in the future:

DISTINCTIVE           Color perception

BROAD                      Color

NARROW                  Color naming affects color perception

RELATED                  Synesthesia and Color naming

2.              Book from Search It (The library Catalog)

Name of book:

·       Colour Perception: Mind and the Physical World

Subject Headings:

·       Visual perception

·       Psychological aspects; Color 

·       Psychological aspects; Color vision

Things about the Book:

            This book combines knowledge across many fields of discipline to explain color and how humans see and perceive it both mentally and physically.

Availability?:

            I would request the book from the WSU-Vancouver Library and pick it up at the scheduled time and date.

3.     eBook from Search It:

Name:

Perception beyond Inference: The Information Content of Visual Processes

Evaluation through ASAP:

Age:

yes, because it was published in 2011 which would be in the last five years to be considered an age appropriate source for the subject.                       

Sources:         

One can only assume the sources are great considering it is a book and has been reviewed several times. However, I was able to find any form of a citation page but there was a list of contributors which displayed a diverse list of specialties that had contributed their own knowledge to the making of this ebook.

Author:           

Seems very trusting because there is such a diverse list of individuals who contributed to the making of this ebook; ten pages of an author index. All individuals had their own credentials ranging from psychology to architecture and/or currently worked in their field

Publisher:       

Cambridge: The MIT Press, is an educational institution and a university press that focuses on Science and Engineering.   

Reflection

                             I really wish I took this class when I first got to WSU-Vancouver because then it would had made taking my Methods class and little more smoothly but instead that class has made this class just a refresher course. I find it hard to explain in this section what I can do differently in the future or what I have learned because of me taking methods already. However, a neat tool that I was not introduced to, oddly enough, was the ASAP test. Again, I would use that as a reference tool in the future.